At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright good... feeling. Life is so short, and so ridiculous and irrational (from a certain point of view) that one knows not what to make of it, unless--well, finish the sentence for yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

'Tis very much like light, a thing that everybody knows, and yet none can tell what to make of it: 'Tis not money, fortune, joyntu...re, raving, stabbing, hanging, romancing, flouncing, swearing, ramping, desiring, fighting, dying, though all those have been, are, and still will be mistaken and miscalled for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, Wh...at is that to you? If you have for years defrauded me of my rightful inheritance, and then, as a stroke of policy, of from late conviction, concluded to restore to me my own domain, must I ask you whether I may make of it a garden of flowers, or a field of wheat, or a pasture for kine?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to of...fer their prescription for alleviating life--their Christianity, for instance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to mak...e poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe.... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal,... yet how trifling the use we make of it! It only serves to turn a few mills, blow a few vessels across the ocean, and a few trivial ends besides. What a poor compliment do we pay to our indefatigable and energetic servant!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck: it endears her to the men who want to make their mammet of her, but sh...e is never allowed to think that their popping eyes actually see her. Her breasts ... are not parts of a person but lures slung around her neck, to be kneaded and twisted like magic putty, or mumbled and mouthed like lolly ices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism someth...ing as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »